MIS100 Event

26 May 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Auckland
9:00am to 1:30pm

Presenting the MIS100, the annual report on the top ICT-using organisations.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ATTENDANCE AT THE MIS100 EVENT IS LIMITED TO CIOs OR EQUIVALENT SENIOR IT POSITIONS

For more information on the 2010 MIS 100, click here

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24 March 2010

CIO Insights Luncheon

Topic: Transformation and Optimisation to Drive Productivity
Location: Wellington
Sponsor: Unisys
Date: 24 March 2010
Venue: The Wellesley Hotel, Maginnity Street

Speakers: Nigel Prince, CIO, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry
Brett Hodgson, Managing Director, Unisys NZ

November 2009
CIO Insights Luncheon
Topic: Cloud Computing
Location: Auckland and Wellington
Sponsor: Unisys
Dates and Venues:

Tuesday, 3 November - Stamford Plaza Hotel, Auckland
Wednesday, 4 November - Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington

Speakers:
Brett Hodgson, Managing Director, Unisys New Zealand
Tim Sheedy, senior analyst, Forrester Research
Andrew Wilshire, Chief Technology Officer, Fonterra

The link to Tim Sheedy's presentation is below and will require you to register on the site to gain access to it.

http://www.forrester.com/cloudnz

 21-22 July 2009
2009 New Zealand CIO Summit
As organisations face increasingly economic uncertainty, challenges keep growing and IT leaders are expected to deliver greater results within tighter budgets. What does this mean for CIOs? What challenges are they facing? Which skills are required not only to meet these challenges, but to become true leaders?

The 2009 CIO Summit will examine the growing importance of INSPIRATION, INNOVATION and INTEGRATION at organisations and how CIOs are the key drivers behind this.

Be inspired:

• 2 CIO panel discussions will be addressing the current financial situation and key leadership skills
• 3 international keynotes with: John Gantz of IDC; Carey Eaton of SEEK and Sid Ahuja of BELL LABS INNOVATION, ALCATEL-LUCENT
• 7 CIO presentations – your opportunity to hear the challenges they face and 'tricks' they use
• Over 25 sponsors and exhibitors

Keeping up with the trends and challenges that are driving the CIOs agendas this year, we have again appointed an Advisory Council – that has assisted us in ensuring the agenda is the best possible outcome for CIOs to learn and debate. The 2009 CIO Advisory Council is:

1. Andrew Cammell, CIO, Chapman Tripp
2. Chris Wickham, Manager IT Customer Services, Wellington City Council
3. Hazel Jennings, IT manager, Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
4. April Walker, GM Information Systems, Southern Cross Healthcare
5. Robin Johansen, CIO, Beca
6. Ross Hughson, CIO, Inland Revenue
7. Channa Jayasinha, Chief Technology Officer, Ministry of Economic Development

For more information on the 2009 CIO SUMMIT, click here


Wednesday, 24 June
MIS100 Event
The MIS100 is the most eagerly anticipated publication listing the country's biggest information technology users. We will present the findings of the 2009 MIS100 research and hear from CIOs in the MIS100 list talk about their latest projects. There will also be an analyst presentation on the trends shaping enterprise ICT.

Speakers:
Ullrich Loeffler, country manager, IDC New Zealand
Stephen Whiteside, director IT, The University of Auckland
Kevin Drinkwater, global CIO, Mainfreight
Rob O'Neill, editor, Computerworld
Kerry Sims, Country Manager, Hitachi Data Systems

Sponsors:
Hitachi(Gold Sponsor), Gentrack(Silver Sponsor)

Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albert Street, Auckland

For more information on the MIS100 Event, click here



17 and 18 June 2009
CIO Insights Luncheon
The June 2009 CIO Insights Luncheons will feature Ashley Mudford, chief information officer of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA). He will speak on balancing critical business outcomes with the need for cost savings during a tight economic environment.

The luncheon will include a presentation on the findings of the latest survey commissioned by Unisys among ICT executives on how enterprises can reduce costs in an outsourced IT environment without negatively affecting productivity, service and revenue.

Wellington: 17 June, The Wellesley Hotel
Auckland: 18 June, Stamford Plaza Hotel
Topic: Optimising sourcing during a slowdown
Speaker: Ashley Mudford, CIO, NZ Food Safety Authority
Sponsor: Unisys

About the speaker:
He has been the CIO for NZFSA since 2005, with his responsibilities including information systems, business-IT integration, information and knowledge strategy, along with organisational development. He has worked in a range of organisations in both the public and private sectors, and ran his own business in project management and business development. Prior to his appointment as CIO, Ashley had been working on various projects with NZFSA. He was responsible for the electronic certification programme that helped modernise New Zealand’s food-related trade supply chain, which subsequently had an influence on the development of trade-related international data standards.

Presentation:




13 and 14 May 2009
CIO Leaders' Luncheon
Topic: Enterprise security

Speaker: David Spaziani, Chief Information Officer, Department of Internal Affairs
David has been CIO at Internal Affairs since 2006. Originally from Australia, he has made Wellington his home for the past 13 years. David's IT career began as a software developer, but has spent much of his career in systems integration and delivery roles, working for Kodak, Unisys and EDS. He joined MED in 2003 as Programme Manager prior to moving to DIA. David has a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the University of Melbourne.

Auckland: 13 May, Stamford Plaza Hotel
Wellington: 14 May, The Wellesley Hotel

Sponsor: Unisys
Presentation:



CIO Conference 2008
Successful strategies for a complex world
16-17 September, SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre

Find out more about the CIO Conference 2008
Click here



August 2008 CIO Leaders’ Luncheons:
The new IS: Innovation Strategy

Today’s CIOs are tasked to build flexible and agile systems in a fast-changing environment. Smart leaders see them as strategic innovators, harnessing their CIOs to power the business with improved processes, increasing customer numbers and providing a competitive edge – but in a cost effective manner. Here in New Zealand these CIOs can be found across all sectors – in government, business, education and not for profit. Meet some of these crusading ICT leaders in the first interactive CIO Leaders’ Luncheon at the IBM Forum 2008.

This year, we are holding the CIO Leaders’ Luncheons in three cities, as part of IBM Forum:
Wellington:
Date: 11 August (Monday)
Venue: Renouf Foyer, Michael Fowler Centre
Time: 12:45 to 2.10pm, followed by IBM sessions till 3.30pm
Speakers: Matjaz Jug, CIO, Statistics NZ
Russell Turner, CIO, MetService
Julian Lonsdale, Chief Technologist, IBM New Zealand

Auckland:
Date: 14 August (Thursday)
Venue: The Hyatt Regency, Auckland
Time: 12:45 to 2.10pm, followed by IBM sessions till 3.30pm
Speakers: Nigel Beach, Research and Development manager, Compac Sorting Equipment
Julia Raue, CIO, Air New Zealand
Julian Lonsdale, Chief Technologist, IBM New Zealand

Christchurch
Date: 19 August (Tuesday)
Venue: Christchurch Convention Centre
Time: 12:45 to 2.10pm, followed by IBM sessions till 3.30pm
Speakers: Simon Gould-Thorpe, CIO, Honda New Zealand
Mike Harte, Director, Information Technology Services, University of Otago
Julian Lonsdale, Chief Technologist, IBM New Zealand



June 2008

Auckland:	Wednesday, 25th June 08, The Wine Chambers
Format:	Roundtable
Topic:	The evolution of the Corporate Desktop

MIS100 Event
Thursday 1 May 08, Crowne Plaza, Auckland, 10am-2pm
The MIS100 is the most eagerly anticipated publication listing the country's biggest information technology users. At this event, CIOs had the opportunity to hear from a number of CIOs and analysts on the trends past and present that are shaping enterprise ICT before the publication was released.

Presentation links

Rob O'Neill, editor, Computerworld
MIS100 research findings

John Brand, Research Director, Hydrasight
The new leadership challenge

Steve Graham, General Manager, Fronde Systems Group
Agile values are New Zealand values

Owen McCall, CIO, The Warehouse Group
Competence before influence

Johan Vendrig, CIO, Auckland District Health Board
Workplace collaboration; where is the fun in that?

Gold sponsor:
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April 2008

Wellington:	Tuesday 15 April, The Wellesley Hotel
Auckland:	Thursday 17 April, Stamford Plaza
Speaker:	Richard Hitchcock, Programme Manager, CIS Branch, New Zealand Defence Force
Topic:	Protecting New Zealand's critical defence infrastructure

December 2007

CIO Luncheon:

Auckland:	Thursday, 6 December, Hyatt Regency, Auckland
Wellington:	Friday, 7 December, The Wellesley Hotel, Wellington
Speaker:	Dr Paul T. Callaghan, 2007 Blake Medallist, Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards
Topic:	'Beyond the Farm and the Theme Park'

September 2007

CIO Conference: The new CIO agenda: Business Leadership & Innovation
18-19 September, SKYCITY Convention Centre, Auckland

The 2007 conference featured those who are redefining the CIO role through vision and innovation, and from leaders across a wide range of disciplines, all of which now form part of the growing CIO portfolio.

Speakers included:

• Julia Raue, CIO, Air New Zealand: At Air New Zealand, the ‘I’ in the title of CIO stands for both information and innovation. This keynote will provide interesting and practical insights on ICT leadership and management in a constantly shifting and competitive business environment from someone in one of the biggest CIO roles in the country.
• Andre Mendes, Global CIO, The Special Olympics: In this searingly honest presentation, award winning CIO Andre Mendes will discuss how CIOs can cope when they are caught in the crossfire of inflated expectations, vendor failings, departmental infighting and, importantly, how they can effectively negotiate the delicate equilibrium of innovation and change in a real world organisation with great outcomes.
• Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence, University of Sydney: In this presentation Durrant-Whyte will argue that robots represent the next great step in the fusion of machines, computing, sensing and software to create intelligent systems capable of interacting with the complexities of the real world.
• Mary Ann Maxwell, Group Vice President, Executive Programs, Gartner: This session will look at what’s next on the CIO agenda with pointers and projections for the coming year, covering all aspects of what will shape the CIO role in the future.
  

August 2007

Virtualisation Technology Briefing
Tuesday 28 August, Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland
$235 + GST per person

Make virtualisation a reality....

If you’re responsible for enterprise technology, come and learn from the experiences of those who have successfully deployed this new technology: find out how they’ve done it, the benefits it has brought to their organisations and what you need to be aware of.

CIO and Computerworld have come together to bring their readers a unique event where attendees will hear not only from a range of industry experts but also from a selection of well-known New Zealand organisations who have completed virtualisation projects.

Featuring:

• Captain Roger MacDonald, Director, Joint Information Services Agency and Peter Thomas, CIO, New Zealand Defence Force: NZDF has recently completed one of the largest and widest-ranging projects in New Zealand, complete with a unique set of challenges. Hear from Roger and Peter on how the project has been deployed.
• Daniel Kenna, Systems Specialist, Manukau Institute of Technology: One of New Zealand’s early adopters of virtualisation, Daniel will present on the case for virtualising and the benefits it has brought. This is invaluable advice for anyone wanting to learn from peer experience.
• Paul Harapin, Managing Director, VMWare ANZ: As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing’s fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy practices. Learn how virtual infrastructure reduces energy consumption by allowing you to run your applications on fewer physical servers.
• EMC will focus on how virtualisation technologies help optimise information infrastructure costs. Learn how to increase asset utilisation, reduce physical resources and costs while improving service delivery to your organisation.
• Dell will give an overview of the current virtualisation industry and expected developments over the next few years. The session will look at how virtualisation technology is shaping ICT departments and their organisations and how it will continue to do so as it evolves and matures.

For more information click here


June 2007

CIO Leaders Luncheons
Auckland: Tuesday 12 June, Langham Hotel
Wellington: Thursday 14 June, The Wellesley Hotel
Speaker: Dave Hall, Mainfreight
Topic: Future proofing through a 21st century 'Green' data centre build

May 2007

MIS100 Event: Thursday 3 May, Hilton, Auckland
10:00am - 2:00pm
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the MIS100 publication in New Zealand, you will have the opportunity to hear from a number of CIOs and analysts on the trends past and present that are shaping enterprise ICT.

Speakers include:
- Tim Sheedy, Forrester
- Rob O’Neill, Fairfax Business Media
- The CIOs from some of this year’s top-ranked organisations
- Bennett Medary, CEO, Simpl Group

To register your interest please email Sue McIntosh

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